The Answer

When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 Minutes?
 Hours?
 What time is it anyway?
 How do you tell your family
 That you wanna quit school and just play with your band?
 When a fire starts burning
 How much time do you have before it burns itself out?
 And why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I doing here?
 Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I looking for?
 Maybe school or maybe love
 Or maybe none of the above is the answer
 Maybe for once I'll really try
 Or fuck it all and just get high?
 Cuz that's an answer
 Feels like an answer
 And who do I wanna be?
 Question twenty three
 What's the furthest distance
 A ship can be from the shore before it loses its signal?
 What's the furthest distance
 A ship can be from the shore before it loses its signal?
 Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I doing here?
 Why do I feel like I'm choking lately?
 What am I looking for?
 Maybe school or maybe love
 Maybe none of the above is the answer
 Maybe for once I'll really try
 Or fuck it all and just get high?
 Cuz that's an answer
 That's an answer
 Maybe I'll practice my guitar
 Or read a book or steal a car and steal the answer
 I'll get a job and I'll get paid
 Or get a girlfriend and get laid and get the answer
 I'll join the army, go to war
 Give up my smokes or smoke some more, I need an answer
 Move to the village, shave my head
 Wind up happy, wind up dead
 Wind up in debt, wind up in love or maybe none of the above
 Is the answer
 Maybe it's ok that I don't have a plan
 And I don't have a clue
 I'm nineteen that doesn't mean
 That I should know exactly what I wanna do, right?
 I'm nineteen and that doesn't mean
 That I should know what I wanna do
 And I've got time to make mistakes
 Make up my mind
 And I've got time enough to find out all the answers
 But I am scared and I'm afraid
 That a decision won't get made
 And I'll be like this forever
 I need help
 Need extra help to find the answers
 What's the answer?
 I don't know, I don't know
 I don't know, I don't know
 I don't know
 I don't, I don't know
 When a fire starts in the hull
 How much time do you have before it spreads to the deck?
 Pencils down
 Papers turned over
 Times up